“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs” PeopleShouldTryingGovernmentPayResponsibilityBearsCostWesternOilProducersWelfare Author:Mohammad Khatami
“I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.” BelieveGovernmentI BelieveCompanyVoteDemocratProfitOilVotingGasObsceneGallonsOil Companies Author:David Letterman
“These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.” GovernmentInterestPowerfulOfficePaperStandardsMajorityHistoricalInternationalClubsRefuseOilNewspapersInvisibleOfficialsPapersSubmissionBankersColumnsPublic OfficeCliqueBiddingPaper MoneyBanks And MoneyStandard Oil Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'” LongSaidRealGovernmentGrowsWaterLandFlowOilGrassRhymeThey SaidSay AnythingTreatiesOklahoma Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929 Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929
“I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.” BelieveSaidGovernmentTogetherI BelieveTruth IsI Believe InHearingOilCompromiseFriendlySenateGlue Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.” MeanDreamGovernmentAblePoliticalPoliticsSportsTermWaterEconomyEthicsPropertySpendingOilStealingSufficientFundStolenDeficitSpellingSurplusPolitical EconomyOil And Water Author:Ilana Mercer